Philosophy and literature in the eighteenth century in France

本研究旨在探讨十八世纪法国激进哲学家小说的形式与内容之间的关系。研究结果特别明确了两点：(1)孟德斯鸠的《文学》（letters persanes）的文学机制，如书信、翻译、寓言和讽刺，这是孟德斯鸠对专制主义的批判态度；(2)狄德罗小说的文学机制，如叙事、情节、对话和人物，这是他对“人类局限性”的表达。

The present study aimed to explore relationship between the form and the content of the fictions written by radical French philosophers in the eighteenth century. In the result, two points were especially clarified: (1) literary mechanisms of Lettres persanes, such as letters, translations, allegories, and satires, by which Montesquieu represents his critical attitudes toward the despotism, and (2) literary mechanisms of Diderot's novels, such as narratives, plots, dialogues, and figures, by whichhe represents the idea of “the limitations of the human beings."